The Cross-Check was the third frame Surly ever offered. There is no such thing as one bike that can do it all, but the Cross-Check does a good job of most things people use bikes for. It`s a cyclocross bike by design but that`s not how most people use it. It does as good a job getting you across the country as it does getting you across town. It`s at home on the road and on trails, on gravel, and just about whatever else you might run into. It`ll take pretty big tires, or smaller ones if you like. It can be built as a geared bike, a singlespeed or a fixed-gear.

The frame is designed to supply a comfortable but lively ride. The tubing is CroMoly steel, high quality drawn tubing built to Surly`s specifications. It`s built to work with components of popular sizes, meaning you can find options in tons of new and old parts. It will accommodate a wide range of crank types and chainring sizes. It`s got accommodations for racks and fenders front and rear. Because it takes those big tires, so you can outfit it to suit where and how you`ll use it.

We offer the Cross-Check as a frameset and also in complete bike form. In fact, Surly`s got two versions of the Cross-Check complete. This one is a 2x10, with drop bars, cantilever brakes and traditional bar-end shifters.

Those familiar with this steel mule know that the ECR is designed around plus tires, previously of the 29inch variety. A fully loaded 29plusbike is an excellent way to explore and get away for a while. If you`re of a certain stature that is. For smaller riders, it poses several challenges though. And no one wants new problems when they?re in the woods trying to escape old ones. To solve this, Surly redesigned the smaller sizes of the ECR to work with 27.5 plus, while the larger sizes are still equipped with 29plus. All you medium specimens out there get your pick of the litter as Surly is offering that size in both options.

Other updates to the ECR include and are limited to: Gnot-Boost rear spacing with Surlys updated Troll dropout and a killer new beige paint job. It retains the abundant accessory mounts that we all know and love like Surly Trip Guide for brakes and derailleurs, fender, rack, and Bill/Ted eyelets, and a Rohloff torque arm slot. The 27.5 plussizes also feature two sets of Three-Pack bosses while the 29plus sizes have two water bottle mounts and one set of Three-Pack bosses. You?ve got a lot of options to bring all your ?necessities? with you and still have room for excess baggage if you`ve got it. And sweet ground scores when you find them.

Those familiar with this steel mule know that the ECR is designed around plus tires, previously of the 29inch variety. A fully loaded 29plusbike is an excellent way to explore and get away for a while. If you`re of a certain stature that is. For smaller riders, it poses several challenges though. And no one wants new problems when they?re in the woods trying to escape old ones. To solve this, Surly redesigned the smaller sizes of the ECR to work with 27.5 plus, while the larger sizes are still equipped with 29plus. All you medium specimens out there get your pick of the litter as Surly is offering that size in both options.

Other updates to the ECR include and are limited to: Gnot-Boost rear spacing with Surlys updated Troll dropout and a killer new beige paint job. It retains the abundant accessory mounts that we all know and love like Surly Trip Guide for brakes and derailleurs, fender, rack, and Bill/Ted eyelets, and a Rohloff torque arm slot. The 27.5 plussizes also feature two sets of Three-Pack bosses while the 29plus sizes have two water bottle mounts and one set of Three-Pack bosses. You?ve got a lot of options to bring all your ?necessities? with you and still have room for excess baggage if you`ve got it. And sweet ground scores when you find them.

Today`s road bikes are tricky little buggers. Sure, there`s still a place for super narrow, pizza cutter-esque tires that save watts and shave grams or whatever. There`s probably still even a place for a road racing bike. Those places still exist. We just don`t know - or particularly care - where they are. When it comes to road bikes, we just want to toss a few bananas into our pockets and see where the road takes us. We seek out varied surfaces on our rides and frequently go from pavement to gravel to shittier pavement.

Enter: The Midnight Special - a Road Plus bike designed to provide comfort and speed on those all-day rides that extend well beyond fresh pavement. It rides like a cloud on smooth pavement. but that?s expected. Any bike can do that. Where it truly shines is on pot-holed, deteriorating pavement and the occasional long stretch of gravel. The Midnight Special`s 650b Road Plus tires eat up road chatter and absorb all the bumps in the road like the champion it was designed to be.

If you`re like us, your bike needs will likely change by the day, week, month or year. Ogre can get you to your job during the week, then way out of town on the weekend. It`s not sluggish on pavement or gravel and can also hold its own on singletrack. Feel like riding from Alaska to the tip of South America? You can load everything you need on Ogre and still have plenty of space for souvenirs. Ogre can handle it even if you don?t think you can. Ogre believes in you so you don`t have to.

For this year, Ogre received a similar treatment as Troll did last year ? horizontal slotted dropouts with Gnot-Boost spacing, a tweaked non-suspension corrected geometry, and a beefier tire clearance, but in a 29er platform. The chainstay yoke has been redesigned to be fully compatible with both 29 x 2.5? and 27.5+ tires. Now with even more of the accessory barnacles you?ve come to know and love on many of our bikes: two water bottle mounts, four sets of three-pack bosses, mid- and low-blade fork eyelets, threaded holes for racks, fenders, and trailer mounting nuts, and a Rohloff OEM2 axle plate slot. If you opt to buy an Ogre complete bike, prepare yourself to get handsy with our new Moloko bar that comes stock on it. It offers hand positions that you didn`t even know existed and the ability to mount even more accessories.

We typically try to avoid bullshit cliché terms like Do-It-All or Swiss Army Knife of Bikes, so we?ll just say that Ogre can probably handle most of the ideas that are bouncing around in your head.

So what is this Straggler anyway? The easy answer is to say that Surly added disc brakes to a Cross-Check and this is close to accurate. People have asked Surly to make a disc version of the highly versatile Cross-Check for a long time now and almost everything about the two are very similar. Straggler is slightly different, though.

So what is this Straggler anyway? The easy answer is to say that Surly added disc brakes to a Cross-Check and this is close to accurate. People have asked Surly to make a disc version of the highly versatile Cross-Check for a long time now and almost everything about the two are very similar. Straggler is slightly different, though.